Diabetes Rescue, Engagement and Management (D-REM): rationale and design of a pragmatic clinical trial of a community paramedicine programme to improve diabetes care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Diabetes is one of the most common serious chronic health conditions in the USA. People living with diabetes face multiple barriers to optimal diabetes care, including gaps in access to medical care and self-management education, diabetes distress, and high burden of treatment. Community paramedics (CPs) are uniquely positioned to support multidisciplinary care for patients with diabetes by delivering focused diabetes self-management education and support and bridging the gaps between patients and the clinical and community resources they need to live well with their disease.

Methods and analysis

We will conduct a pragmatic single-arm prospective trial of a CP-led Diabetes Rescue, Engagement and Management (D-REM) programme that seeks to reduce diabetes distress

SUBMITTER: Juntunen MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9024266 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature